What an amazing Conference that was! We watched the first session live on Saturday night here, and then watched the rest of the sessions on Sunday here at the Institute center. We'd watch a session, eat some food, then watch another, then eat some food, and then we watched the last two sessions live at 6 pm here and 10 pm. I was pretty tired during the last session but I'll definitely be listening to it again in the near future:)
This
week was pretty rough. My companion has been sick and hasn't been able
to leave the apartment for much of the week, so we weren't able to teach
or find much. So I don't have much to say about that, so I guess I'll
just talk a little about conference:)
Man! One
of my favorite talks was right off the get-go. The second talk by Elder
Robbins about "Which way do we face?" It was so bold and much needed. It
takes a lot of courage to really, truly stand up for what is right
sometimes. I know, many times, if there is an opportunity to stand
up for good it's always tempting to justify our way out. But we can't
invert the first and second commandments! The first commandment is to
love God. That is and always will be most important. We can't let
ourselves rationalize and slide down and meet other's lower standards. We
must do and stand up for what God wants us to do. Maybe people will
take offense or think you are self-righteous or judgmental, but we
need to be more worried about what God thinks. Fear God more than man!! I
loved it:)
But at the same time, when it comes
to council that we receive, we must always look inward first and ask
ourselves, "Lord, is it I?" I think that was Uchtdorf's talk at
Priesthood session. We must be casting the mote out of our own eye
before we try and cast the mote out of others' eyes. (Whatever a mote
is..... haha) Conference is the best. Can't believe I'll only be here
for one more conference! That's insane!
The
transfer ends next week, and I think I will be staying in Oslo for a few
more months. I will be getting a new companion though! Straight from the
MTC. Fresh off the plane. I'm looking forward to training again, it
will be fun:)
Here's some pictures I received from Veronika's baptism!!
To answer some of your questions mom..
Here
in Oslo we use a TON of public transportation; Buses, Trams, trains,
subway, and we can occasionally borrow the senior couples car if we need
to. Or we just walk:) But we mostly use the trams. We live in a pretty
big apartment building which is in the city. It's a 3 minute walk to our
institute center. There are 8 missionaries here in Oslo, plus a senior
couple!
The weather is BEAUTIFUL right now!
Just typical fall weather. The trees are all changing color and it's
awesome. It's usually pretty cloudy and it's getting a lot colder. I'm
looking forward to the snow though so I'm not complaining!
As
I mentioned before. The ward here has over 50 different nationalities
in it, but not all of them speak Norwegian. We have Norwegian, English
and Spanish classes, and sacrament meeting is translated into all three
of those languages using headphone devices for those who need an English
or Spanish translation:) It's intense!
I'm a
District Leader. It just means that I have to prepare hour and a half
long district meetings each week, also I'm the main contact between the
ward and the missionaries. I just have to follow up with my district and
make sure all of the companionships are doing well and try and set
district goals that will help us:) Being District leader in Kristiansund
was a lot easier haha.
I'll answer the rest next week!
I love you all so much. I know the church is true. God loves us no matter what!
Elder Nilsson
Oh!
And remember the Norwegian foreign exchange student that I went to
school with? She was in Oslo and came and watched a session of general
conference with us! It was cool to be able to talk to her in Norwegian
this time haha :)
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